Tire Analysis Tools for Performance and Safety

Capture static or dynamic tire footprint pressure patterns for tire tread and performance analysis with tire analysis from Tekscan.

Analyze tire performance and tread to optimize tire designs and benchmark against competitive products

Tire manufacturers need to understand the changes of a tire under various loads and applications to improve handling and response. This analysis tool provides insight for a better understanding of tire design and how the tire interacts with road surfaces. Analyzing a tire footprint with pressure mapping allows engineers to see how their design improves:

• NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness)

• Overall Performance

• Fuel economy

• Longevity/wear

Tekscan tire analysis solutions effectively capture valuable interface pressure insights, providing essential data to address the growing demands of the market. The intuitive, application-specific graphing and image analysis software empowers users to conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses of their tire designs in sophisticated ways that traditional Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simply cannot achieve.

TireScan™ Detailed Tread Analysis, capture real-time tire contact pressure patterns:

• Capable of measuring almost any size tire from passenger vehicles through agricultural and aircraft tires

• Fully integrated, ruggedized solution

• Measures large tire footprints at a high resolution

• 250K sensing elements over a 508 mm x 508 mm (20 in x 20 in) area

• Designed to handle harsh environments - shear forces, deceleration, toe, and camber

High Speed TireScan, high speed tire performance analysis system:

• Capture the impact of speed, motion, and inertial forces on a tire at speeds up to 265 km/h (165 mph)

• Array of pressure sensing elements scan at 20 kHz as the tire rolls across the system

• Works with both flat track and drum high speed tire test systems

• Evaluate tire performance at high speeds and identify failure modes

• Measure tire distortion

I-Scan™ for Tire Bead Analysis, measure bead seat / seal profile of virtually any tire-to-wheel interface:

• Acquire pressure profiles from outside the tire, past the flange and bead, to inside the tire

• Compatible with slip ring for use while the tire is spinning

• Long sensor designs available to capture inboard & outboard pressure profiles simultaneously

Tire footprint measurement applications include:

• Tire footprint pressure pattern evaluation

• Analyze various tire compounds and tread designs

• Assess suspension and camber

• Sipe and tread block design and testing

• Tire patch characterization on drum or flat track

• Road surface predictive wear studies

• Tire mold adjustment

• Race vehicle "set-up"

• Manufacturing quality assurance

• Competitive benchmarking